International Organized Crime: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurial Crime

Abstract

This paper explores changing trends in international organized crime with particular attention to changes in Eastern Europe. Discussions and findings are based on research both in the United States and abroad at various police organizations, law enforcement intelligence agencies, related government organizations, international organized crime entities. Among the findings are the growth in comparatively short-term criminal alliances, diversity among the commodities of crime cartels, and growth in transnational criminal alliances. It was also found that Eastern European organized groups are diverse, violent, and will engage in changing "structures" in order to maximize profits in any given enterprise or in the criminal trafficking of commodities.